Tuesday 14 August 2018

CARA THOMPSON SLIPS DOWN TO THIRD MATCH-PLAY QUALIFIER AT STRATHTYRUM TOURNAMENT

By Colin Farquharson

Royal Dornoch's Cara Thompson, clear of the field after an opening qualifying round of three-under-par 70 at the Eden Course, slipped back to joint third place among the match-play qualifiers after taking 82 shots to get round the St Andrews New Course today in the Strathtyrum tournament.
Her aggregate of four-over 148 was beaten by leading qualifier Martine Pow (Selkirk) who had a 74 on the Eden and an excellent five-under 70 on the New for a 144 total - seven strokes ahead of the second qualifier Lucy Jamieson (Heswall) who shot 78-73.
Baberton's Karen Marshall, who has a formidable record over the years in the "Strathtyrum" safely qualified for the match-play in joint third place with scores of 78 and 74.

SCOREBOARD
(New Course scores first, followed by Eden scores)
par 148 (75-73)
144 M Pow (Selkirk) 70 74
151 L Jamieson (Heswall) 78 73
152 C Thompson (Royal Dornoch) 70 82, K Marshall (Baberton) 78 74.
154 E Baxter (Houghton-le-Spring) 78 76.
155 J Allan (Glenbervie) 77 78, G S Westin (Swe) 81 74.
157 M McAuliffe (Ballybunion) 79 78, M Helgers (Neth) 81 76
159 H Platt (Swe) 81 78 D Goodacre (Lambourne) 82 77
160 F Norris (Hamilton) 85 75, M Henderson (Royal Belfast) 79 81
161 W Grayson (Ringway) 88 73, F Todenhurst (Ludlow) 80 81
162 L Wilson (Kerlso) 82 80 J Mackie (Ladybank) 82 80, C Houghton (Notts) 83 79.
163 A Toft (Chester) 79 84
164 W Nicholson (Baberton) 83 81
165 B Jamieson (Heswall) 77 88, J Nordgren (Swe) 88 77.
166 J Gallagher (Woburn) 84 82, C Smith (Burnham Beeches) 84 82.
168 L Church (Henbury) 87 81, Z Ridgway (Crail GS) 81 87
170 C Hall (Penwortham) 82 88
171 C Ryder (Prestbury) 83 88, S Mawhinney (Penwortham) 83 88, L Ward (Woburn) 91 80, K Evans (Frilford Heath) 85 86
172 L Fitzpatrick (Burnham Beeches) 90 82
173 L Terry (Cruden Bay) 87 86, C Corrigan (Ballybunion) 88 85, V Rogers (Bromsgrove) 86 87, C Gallagher (Reigate Heath) 88 85, M Pinheiro (Portugal) 89 84, A Bolland (Thurles) 91 82, M Finn (Thurles) 94 79.
176 E Marshall (Baberton) 95 81, E Goodwin (Glenbervie) 93 83
178 H Goodwin (Glenbervie) 94 84,L Kilpatrick (Deer Park) 88 90.
179 M Wardrop (Turnhouse) 92 87
184 J Alexander (Tewkesbury) 92 92
190 C Purves (Selkirk) 93 97,